US Patent Issued to Sonos on Sept. 15 for "Audio playback management of multiple concurrent connections" (Massachusetts, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,966, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Audio playback management of multiple concurrent connections" was invented by Jodi Vautrin (Boston), Matt Pandina (Boston), Elizabeth Dolman (Boston), Ken Hu (Boston), Jason Yore (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Matthew Moore (Seattle), Ted Lin (Cambridge, Mass.), Richard Bannon (Seattle), Chris Babroski (Boston) and Robert Bermani (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to management of concurrent audio streams from different sources. Portable playback devices, such as wearable wireless headphones and earbuds, as well as portable b...